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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117118" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Canto I — The Trystyng</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One winter night, at half-past nine,<br>Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,<br>I had come home, too late to dine,<br>And supper, with cigars and wine,<br>Was waiting in the study.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a strangeness in the room,<br>And Something white and wavy<br>Was standing near me in the gloom —<br>I took it for the carpet-broom<br>Left by that careless slavey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But presently the Thing began<br>To shiver and to sneeze:<br>On which I said "Come, come, my man!<br>That's a most inconsiderate plan.<br>Less noise there, if you please!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I've caught a cold," the Thing replies,<br>"Out there upon the landing."<br>I turned to look in some surprise,<br>And there, before my very eyes,<br>A little Ghost was standing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He trembled when he caught my eye,<br>And got behind a chair.<br>"How came you here," I said, "and why?<br>I never saw a thing so shy.<br>Come out! Don't shiver there!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said "I'd gladly tell you how,<br>And also tell you why;<br>But" (here he gave a little bow)<br>You're in so bad a temper now,<br>You'd think it all a lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And as to being in a fright,<br>Allow me to remark<br>That Ghosts have just as good a right<br>In every way, to fear the light,<br>As Men to fear the dark."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"No plea," said I, "can well excuse<br>Such cowardice in you:<br>For Ghosts can visit when they choose,<br>Whereas we Humans ca'n't refuse<br>To grant the interview."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said "A flutter of alarm<br>Is not unnatural, is it?<br>I really feared you meant some harm:<br>But, now I see that you are calm,<br>Let me explain my visit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Houses are classed, I beg to state,<br>According to the number<br>Of Ghosts that they accommodate:<br>(The Tenant merely counts as weight,<br>With Coals and other lumber).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"This is a 'one-ghost' house, and you<br>When you arrived last summer,<br>May have remarked a Spectre who<br>Was doing all that Ghosts can do<br>To welcome the new-comer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"In Villas this is always done —<br>However cheaply rented:<br>For, though of course there's less of fun<br>When there is only room for one,<br>Ghosts have to be contented.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"That Spectre left you on the Third —<br>Since then you've not been haunted:<br>For, as he never sent us word,<br>'Twas quite by accident we heard<br>That any one was wanted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"A Spectre has first choice, by right,<br>In filling up a vacancy;<br>Then Phantom, Goblin, Elf, and Sprite —<br>If all these fail them, they invite<br>The nicest Ghoul that they can see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Spectres said the place was low,<br>And that you kept bad wine:<br>So, as a Phantom had to go,<br>And I was first, of course, you know,<br>I couldn't well decline."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"No doubt," said I, "they settled who<br>Was fittest to be sent<br>Yet still to choose a brat like you,<br>To haunt a man of forty-two,<br>Was no great compliment!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I'm not so young, Sir," he replied,<br>"As you might think. The fact is,<br>In caverns by the water-side,<br>And other places that I've tried,<br>I've had a lot of practice:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But I have never taken yet<br>A strict domestic part,<br>And in my flurry I forget<br>The Five Good Rules of Etiquette<br>We have to know by heart."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My sympathies were warming fast<br>Towards the little fellow:<br>He was so utterly aghast<br>At having found a Man at last,<br>And looked so scared and yellow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"At least," I said, "I'm glad to find<br>A Ghost is not a dumb thing!<br>But pray sit down: you'll feel inclined<br>(If, like myself, you have not dined)<br>To take a snack of something:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Though, certainly, you don't appear<br>A thing to offer food to!<br>And then I shall be glad to hear —<br>If you will say them loud and clear —<br>The Rules that you allude to."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Thanks! You shall hear them by and by.<br>This is a piece of luck!"<br>"What may I offer you?" said I.<br>"Well, since you are so kind, I'll try<br>A little bit of duck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"One slice! And may I ask you for<br>Another drop of gravy?"<br>I sat and looked at him in awe,<br>For certainly I never saw<br>A thing so white and wavy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still he seemed to grow more white,<br>More vapoury, and wavier —<br>Seen in the dim and flickering light,<br>As he proceeded to recite<br>His "Maxims of Behaviour."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lewis+Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a> from <i>Phantasmagoria</i><div class=q>
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